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- Cost of Social Rejections
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being socially rejected from the group was akin to a death warrent given our profound dependance on other for food schelter defenses affection.
study
ball game pickle
FMRI reveal anterior cingualte cortex lights up the area that is responsible for pain - attachment theory
- a theory about how our early attachment with our parents shape our relationships for the remainder of our lives.
- Attachment theory study
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romantic partners leaving the airport, attachment style correalted to amount of greif or physicall demonstrations of sadness upon saying goodbye
secure indiviudals tended to attribute thier partners negative behvoir in a more postive fasion than axous or avoidant type - relational self theory
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theory that examines how prior realtionships shape our current beleifs feelings and interactions vis a vis peoople who remind us of significant others.
if participants listed traits like silly or irreverent when describing what she was like with her father these traits were more likely to appear in self description two weeks later. - communal relationships
- relationships in which individuals feel a special responsibility for one another give and receive according to the principle of need, relationships often long term.
- exchange relationships
- in which individuals feel ltter responsiblity toward adn in which giving are receiving are goverend by concerns about equity and reciprocity often short term relationships
- what is power
- typically defined as the ability to control our own outcome and those of others
- authority
- the power that derives from institutionalized roles
- dominance
- is behavior that has the acquisition or demonstration of power as its goal.
- were does power come from
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power can derive from expertise
coersion
rewards to others
finnaly power derives from ability to serve as a role model. - approach inhibition theory
- if you have power you should be less concerned about evaluations of others and more likely to engage in approach related Beauvoir to satisfy your goals and desire.
- social dominance orientation
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the desire to see ones group dominate over other groups, is strongly endorsed by individuals associated with the more powerful groups
strongly correlated with with predjidce and discrimination.
- triangular theory of love
- a theory that states that there are three major components of love passion commitment and intimacy which can be combined in differant ways
- investment model of romantic satisfaction
- a model of interpersonal relationships that maintains that three things make parnters more committed to each other is the relative rewards and investment in the relationships.
- dangerous attributions and marital success
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one robust construal tendency is negative attractions
dissatisfied distressed couples make attributions that cast the relationship in a negative light. - creating strong romantic bonds
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active constructive: are event when one partner responds to good news of another by engaged enthusiasm
passive constructive
active destructive
passive destructive
active constructive capitalization greater relationships success. - be playfull
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humor and laughter task condition
non hummor laughter task condition
playfully arousing condition reproted significnatly higher marital satisfaction. - success in marige outline
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be playffull
care and forgive
idealization
creating strong romantic bonds thought active constructive responces -
stereotypes
- stereotypes: beleifs that certain attributes are characteristics of particular groups
- predujudice
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refers to an attitudinal and affective responce toward a certain group and its individual members
- discrimination
- refers to negative and harmfull behvoir directed toward members of particular groups.
- modern racism
- is identified as the rejection of explcit racist beleifs while maintaing and enduring animosty towards mintority groups
- study of modern racism
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when they excelled in every catogory they were accepted but when they equal to a white person but worse in differatn categories they rated those cateogires in which the black participant was poor at as the most important for success. rascism
helping a person on the ground you help them no matter what if they are white or if there is no one around, but if other people are around you have an excuse to be racist - benevolent racism sexism
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found that benevolant sexism often coexists wth hostile sexism
inhibits inequality by promoting behvoir limits equality
stay in the kitchen women - IAT
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reveals subtle non concous prejudices even on the part of those who advocate universal equality and high regard to all groups.
black and gun fast response
black and hero slow responce - Priming and Implict Prejudice
- an implicit measure of prejudice can thus be derived by comparing a persons average reaction time to positive and negative words preceded by faces of members of the target category.
- realistic group conflict theory
- predicts correctly the pejduce and discrimination should increase in times of economic difficulty
- realistic group conflcit theory studies
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study
number of lynching and cotton prices
- robers cave experiment
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2.5 weeks summer camp
two groups
the competative tournament was designed to encouraged each group to see the other as impediment to the fulfillment of its own goals and hence a foe
there was quite a bit of inter group hostility
once superordinate goals: goals that transend the interests of one individual group that can be aceived reaidy by two or mroe groups workign toegether
after supordinate goals introduced they became freinds.
- motivation perspective
- intergoup hostility develops even in the absence of competition
- minimal group paradigm
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study
how many dots are on the wall
low estimation group
high estimation group
participants maximized the relative gain of their in group and minimized the relative gain of their out groups
these out groups were minimal categories. -
motivational perspective
social identity theory -
a theory that says a self concept and self esteem derive in part form the groups in which we belong.
study
groups that descrimiatned anmotuehr group increased theres elf esteem -
motivation perspective
Basking in Reflected Glory
- the tendency to take pride in the accomplishments of those with whom we are in some way associated.
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motivational perspective
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basking in reflected glory
social identity theory
minimal group paradigm - cognative perspective
- all of this categorizing has its purpose: it simplifies that task taking in the processing a increadable volume of information the presents it self.
- cognative perspective study
- as the expermenters ancipiated the use of stereotypes eased students burden helping them perfomr better and also better on a mutlple chocie test not realted to the stereotype
- cognative persepctive list
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Biased information processing
Self Fulfilling Prophecy
distinctiveness and illusory correlations
out group homogeneity effects
explaining away exceptions - Out Group Homogeneity effect
- the tendency that in group similarity is much stronger for out groups than for in groups
- Biased information processing
- stereotypes can therefor be self reinforcing. actions that are not consistent with a stereotypes are seen as not significant, ignored and quickly forgotten
- self fullining prophecy and coganative perspective for racism
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acting in a way tends to produce the behoir that we anticiapted
study
interviewers of a black particapants sat farther away and hummed and hawwed more. - Disctinctiveness and illusory correaltions
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an erronous bleif about the connections of two events
two thigns stick out
being black
somthign negative
black and negative - explaining away exceptions
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expalining away expections to a stereotype attributing behvoir consistent with the stereotype to the disposiitons of the people invovled
and attributing behvoir not consistent to external cause. - reducing stereotypes Prejudice and discrimination
- contact between members of different groups can lessen the intergorup animosity, espeicaly if this contact invovles one to one interactions between individuals of equal status, if it encourages the cooperative persuit of super ordinate goals and if is its supportd by the prevailign norms in each group.
- social facilitation
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triplet beleived that the presence of other tended to facilitate human performance
cyclists time vs solo
however some did worse in groups - Zajonic Theory
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argues that the mere presence of others tended to facilitate perfomrance on simple well learn tasks and hinder performance on more diffuclt or novel tasks
arousal tend to make people more likely to do what they were already inclined to do that is there dominant responce - cockraoch study
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the presence of other croches faciliated performance in a well learned task getting to the end of a straight trac
while in inhibited cockroaches in the mroe complex well learned task. - evaluation apprehension
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a concern about looking bad in the eyes of other evaluated that is important.
need to distinguish it from mere presence in zajonic theory - testing for mere presence
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had participants take off their own shoes, put on a pair of lab socks
put on a pair of oversized lab shoes
in the presence of a repair man
how quickly they could put on thier own clothes vs how well they could put on unfamiliar clothes
zajonics theory predicts that they should change their own clothes faster and novel clothes more slowly when in the mere presence of another person. - distraction Conflict Theory
- an theory based on the idea that being aware of anouther person presence a conflcit between attending to a the task and attending to them which creastes the arousal wich then creates the arousal.
- emergent properties of groups
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deindividuation
the reduced sence of individual identity accompanied by diminished self regulation that comes over people when they are in large groups. - suicide bating
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peopel occational engage in suciide bating urginhg individauls to jump
suciidie bating was more likely to occur if it was past 6 pm and if the crowd exceeded 3000
lack of anonomity and deindivudaation of the group - conduct in war
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de individuaation
as predicted there was a strong correaltion between deindiduation and aggressiveness in warefare. - halloween mayehm
- children who were asked ther names by the paricpants were less likely to take extra candy or steal money
- self awareness theory of groups
- a theory that maintains that when people focus their attention inward on themselves they become concerned with self evaluation and how their current behavior conflicts to their internal standards values.
- spotlight effect
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peoples convictions of other peopel are attending to them their appearnce and behvoir more than is actualy teh case
college studentss who were given alchol gave speeches with less first person pronouns. - Group Think
- Jans argues that these calamitous decisions were made because of group think and a kind of faulity thinking on the part of highly cohesive group in which critical scruity that should be devoted to the siseus at hand are subverted by social pressures to reach a consensuts
- Elements of Janis’s Group Think Hypothesis
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- Antecedent conditions
- High cohesiveness
- Insulation of the group
- Lack of procedures for information search and appraisal
- Hish tress with a low degree of hoppe for findigna better solution than one favored by the leader or other influencial people
- Motivation
- Concurance seeking
- Symptoms of group think
- Symptoms of Group Think
- Illusion of invulnerability
- Collective rationality
- Belief in inherent moraliuty fo the group
- Stereotypes of outggorups
- Self censorhisp
- Illusion of unanimity
- Symptoms of Defective decision making
- Incomplete survey of objectives
- Incomplete survey of alternatives
- Poor information search
- Failure to examine risks of preferred choice
- Selective bias of processing the information at hand
- Failure to reappraise alternatives
- Failure to work out contingency plans
- preventing group think
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making sure the group is not cutt off from a outside input. individuals who have not been privy to the early stages of a discussion can provide a fresh perspective as well as put the breaks on risky actions that might result otherwise
designating one person in the group to plays devils advocate. - group think in other cultures
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Group think in places like japan can be so great , that even at scientific meeting there is rarely true debate or any other exchange that might appear confotnration or cause anyone to lose face.
- Science suffers
- Group polarization
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tendencies for group decisions to be more extreme than those made by indiviudal members.
persausive arguments
each person is exposed to a new argument which is like minded which therfor pushes the extremety of the group
socail comparison
people think they are risker than the average person so they shift their subjective risk to be riskier than other people upping the anty
peopel value taking risk over caution